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Struan and Stevenson
The MP of 33 years, Hector Monro retired and the Conservative and Unionist candidate was Struan Stevenson.
* Struan Stevenson ( European People's Party )
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In 2003 she visited the area with Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson, where she photographed victims of radiation poisoning.

Struan and born
Angus Struan Carolus Robertson ( Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas Sruthan Teàrlach Mac Raibeart, born 28 September 1969 ) is the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Moray and is the SNP's Parliamentary Group Leader and spokesperson for foreign affairs and defence.
It's not possible for him to ' remember ' ROSS LECHIE because he died long before Dunross was born ; we can only assume that Alastair's father, ROSS STRUAN, is another member of the Struan family and that he became tai-pan after ROSS LECHIE-after all, Robb Struan had two sons to follow him, Roddy and Sir Lochlin.
* John Robertson, born in 1830 at Struan, was a railway porter residing in Causewayend.
An Australian-born Scot, Clark Kerr was born Archibald Kerr Clark, the son of John Kerr Clerk and Kate Louisa, daughter of Sir John Struan Robertson.

Struan and 4
* A fragment of Scene 2, Act 4 of the play, with Struan Rodger as Ferdinand and Donald Burton as Bosola, is shown in the 1987 BBC TV film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel Sleeping Murder.

Struan and is
In Taipan, Dirk Struan is loosely based on William Jardine while Robb Struan is loosely based on James Matheson.
The Struan family and their company Struan's ( also called the Noble House ) is a fictional family featuring heavily in many of the Asian Saga novels by writer James Clavell.
Tai-Pan is the first book about the Struan family, although it is preceded by Shōgun in the Asian saga.
The fictional Struan family is based on the historical Jardine family of Jardine-Matheson fame, and hails from Ayr, Scotland.
He is the son of Dirk Struan, tai-pan of Struan's Trading Company.
His mother Tess Struan, and Gordon Chen urge Malcolm to return to Hong Kong to formally become tai-pan, but he is unable to travel due to a samurai ambush which nearly kills him, and leaves him severely wounded.
It is stated by Ian Dunross in " Noble House " that although the title of tai-pan was passed from one to another, Tess Struan maintained the real power of the Noble House until her death in 1917.
In Noble House, Struan is a member of Struan's inner circle and an aspirant to the office of tai-pan.
Bartlett is negotiating a deal with Struan's, but secretly plans to raid Struan ' with the knowledge he has obtained, and install himself as tai-pan.
Dirk Lochlin Struan is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.
The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as " supreme leader ", and Struan is the taipan or head of his own trading company in China, Struan's.
In Clavell's literary universe, moreover, Struan is presented as the Tai-Pan, and his company as the Noble House, the greatest private trading company in nineteenth-century Asia.
A Scotsman, " the devil Struan " is portrayed as a tough and resourceful rogue, endowed with vision and determination.
But Struan is almost always a little stronger, a little smarter, and a little richer than his nemesis.
The enmity between Struan and Brock is a prominent theme in Clavell's Asian Saga.
Struan has a Chinese mistress, May-may, and their romance is developed within the conventions of the genre as the basis for the novel's optimistic theme of cross-cultural fusion.
Struan ( Gaelic Sruthan, ' stream '), is a parish church, of early Christian origin and dedicated to St. Fillan, at the confluence of the Errochty Water and Garry rivers.
Only the family vault at Dunalastair is still in the possession of the family of Struan ; however, many modern properties have been added to the clan land.
The title Baron of Struan is still transferred through Dunalastair.
Although the novel features many characters, it is Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and the owners of two massive ( fictional ) trading companies who are the main focal points of the story.
Struan is referred to throughout the novel as Tai-Pan, indicating his position as head of the largest of all the trading companies in Asia.

Struan and Scottish
It is not explained how O ' Gorman, whose name is presumably Irish, was permitted to assume the top post of Struan's as Dirk Struan had specified that the leader must be of Scottish descent and " kin to the clan Struan.
* note # 2 Dirk's Legacy did not specifically mention Scottish descent as a requirement, merely that the candidate be Christian, a kinsman, by blood or marriage, and of wholesome spirit-Jacques deVille is French and yet he was a member of the Inner Circle and was considered a contender ; Paul " Profitable " Choy is pure Chinese but he was inducted by the weak Linbar Struan to the Inner Circle when Choy married one of Linbar's daughters and converted to Christianity
Struan and Company ( the " Noble House " trading company of the novel ) is based on Jardine Matheson Holdings, a massive Scottish trading company that continues to this day as an Asia-based trading company.
A Scottish strathspey, ' Struan Robertson's Rant ' appears, stripped of the Scotch snap, as a smallpipe tune, ' Cuckold come out of the Amrey ', a long variation set.

Struan and politician
John Struan Robertson is a former New Zealand politician.

Struan and .
* Jacobs, Struan, and Allen, R. T., eds, " Emotion, Reason and Tradition: Essays on the Social, Political and Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi ", Guildford, Ashgate, 2005.
Struan Rodger who played the dwarf Durathror, was in a radio production of another Garner story, Elidor, when he was thirteen years old.
The Struan family begins its journey with the story of Dirk Struan, a trader of opium and other goods between China and England.
* Culum Struan, a character in the novels Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin.
At the end of the novel Tai-Pan he succeeds Dirk Struan following his death in 1841.
Malcolm dies of an internal hemorrhage in December 1862, and Tess then eventually picks Lochlin Struan to be tai-pan.
* Lochlin Struan, a character from Asian Saga, mentioned in the 66th chapter of Noble House.
Lochlin was a son of Robb Struan and the third tai-pan of Struan's.
In actuality, he was merely the nominal tai-pan, with actual authority being exercised by Hag Struan.
Lochlin died in 1915, and was replaced as tai-pan by Ross Lechie Struan.
His mother was Winifred Dunross, the daughter of Dirk Struan.
He married his cousin Agnes Struan.
* Ross Struan, father of Alastair Struan and seventh tai-pan.
* Alastair Struan, a character in the novel Noble House.

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